Fancy Text Generator

Unicode, the standard that lists every character a computer can show, includes several complete alphabets of styled letters. Most were added for mathematics, where a bold x and an italic x can mean different things. Others are enclosed letters for labels and lists, or small letters for phonetics.

As you type, the generator swaps each letter for its twin in every one of those alphabets. Copy a style and you copy those characters, so the look goes wherever the text goes, even into apps that let you choose no fonts at all.

Nothing on this page changes a font. Each style swaps your letters for different characters that happen to look like styled letters: 𝐁 is “mathematical bold capital B”, a separate character from B, made so that equations can tell different kinds of variable apart. That is why the text keeps its style when you paste it somewhere that has no formatting, such as a social media bio.

It also has real costs, and it is fairer to say so:

• Screen readers may not read it. Some skip the characters altogether, and others announce each one, such as “mathematical bold capital B”, so a short phrase becomes a long string of symbol names. Upside-down and enclosed letters are often read as nonsense.
• Search may not find it. A search for “sale” will not always match 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞, so styled names and keywords can be harder to find on the platforms that use them.
• Some devices show boxes. Older phones and some fonts lack these characters and show an empty box or a question mark instead.

So use it for decoration, not information: a word or two of emphasis, a name, a heading in a bio. Never style a whole post, a link, a price, a date or anything a reader must understand. Where real formatting is available, such as in a document, an email or a web page, use the bold and italic buttons instead. They look the same and work for everyone.

Want one style on its own? There are pages for bold text,italic text, upside-down text, strikethrough text andsmall text.

• Style a word or a short phrase, not a whole paragraph. A little stands out; a lot is hard to read.
• Keep usernames, hashtags and keywords plain so people can search for them.
• Check the result on a phone before you post: that is where missing characters show up as boxes.
• Bio fields count characters. Styled letters usually count as one each, but some apps count them as two, so check with the character counter if you are near a limit.